Oswald Carver, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Oswald Carver

British rower

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1887

Place of Birth: Marple, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 07-Jun-1915

Profession: engineer, rower

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Oswald Carver

  • Oswald Armitage Carver (2 February 1887 – 7 June 1915) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
  • He died of injuries during the First World War.Carver was born at Marple, Cheshire, the son of William Oswald Carver and his wife, Katherine Armitage.
  • His father was a cotton goods merchant who had been successful enough to buy Cranage Hall, near Holmes Chapel.
  • Carver was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
  • He rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in 1908.
  • The Cambridge crew made up a boat in the eights which won the bronze medal for Great Britain rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.Carver was a director of the family company which owned Hollins Mill at Marple and had offices and warehouses in central Manchester's "cotton district".
  • Carver was very active in the Scout movement which he introduced to Marple.During World War I, Carver served with 1/2nd East Lancashire Field Company Royal Engineers.
  • His initial application to serve overseas with the Company was rejected by an army medical board at Bury on 3 September 1914 because he was suffering from deafness.
  • However his hearing was checked again a month later and by 31 December, he had been promoted to Captain responsible for one of the Company's four Sections.
  • At the beginning of May 1915, the troops left Egypt to go into action at Gallipoli.
  • On 4 June in the Third Battle of Krithia, the Engineers were to follow Territorial Battalions of the Manchester Regiment in an infantry attack on the Turkish positions.
  • Their role was to dig communication trenches back to the original British line and build strongpoints to be used in case of counterattack.
  • Carver was wounded in the back and evacuated down to 11th Casualty Clearing Station on the landing beach.
  • He died three days later, aged 28.Carver married Elizabeth Hobart, daughter of Robert Thompson Hobart of Tunbridge Wells in 1911.
  • They had children John Hobart Carver, father of Martin Carver and Richard Oswald Hobart Carver.
  • The family lived at The Hollies in Marple.
  • In 1927 Carver's widow married Lieutenant-Colonel (later Field Marshal) Bernard Montgomery.

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